In view of the lesson of the near-total annihilation of the Pacific Fleet, the US Atlantic Fleet is now unwilling to move lightly, and the Navy does not dare to do anything other than harassment it with light warships, submarines, and aircraft in the Caribbean Sea, and allows the German army to expand, which is called a "diversionary attack," and the goal is not to engage the main force, but to try to destroy the German supply and transportation system. But the results were very small, because the German supply line was not maintained all the time like the American army, and always accompanied the Grand Fleet, and the United States did not dare to easily press the whole army on the Grand Fleet, so it could only let it go, and the Axis Combined Fleet had just completed a round of supply and attack in October, and was now returning home, ready to maintain, recuperate, and prepare for the next phase of operations.

The German army in South America played a flexible tactical style, firmly controlling French and Dutch Guiana and northern Brazil, and at the same time, after a period of rest, Sauken and other troops led the Brazilian army from Bahia to the northwest to form a penetration, only isolating the American army in Recife. Now that the pro-American Brazilian regime has a sphere of influence equal to a quarter the size of the pro-German Brazilian regime, more and more neutral states are beginning to submit to the Dutra Montero regime in Rio de Janeiro.

This anxiety and shift has been exacerbated by the fact that Peru has lost some of its territory from Brazil and has openly shifted to the axis, and the two countries bordering Peru have also become unstable, especially since the Galapagos Islands, which belong to Ecuador, are now under the de facto control of Japan. While they were directly eye-to-eye with the Axis, they were trying to catch the express train of the La Plata group, as was the case in Chile, which has always been dominated by left-wing forces.

MacArthur explained such an embarrassing scene as follows: "The larger the German army is now spread out in Central and South America and the Caribbean, the higher the material requirements it needs to maintain, and the stronger its dependence on transportation lines and navy. ”

This kind of argument has the meaning of sitting back and watching the other side "self-explode" and "rejoice when he hears that the German army has increased its troops and expands the territory", and almost did not make Dewey angry, but it is not surprising that the army unanimously agrees with the joint staff of the joint staff to hold this view, and the navy also holds a similar view, and even the newly independent air force basically has this meaning, Arnold desperately built up the crew until Christmas Eve and restored the air force to more than 2,700 groups of skilled crews, and he only wants to maintain it now, and does not want to pull it out to fight.

Turner even openly declared: "Didn't the Germans want to expand their territory? Okay, give it all to him! What Venezuela and Guyana don't want at all, Colombia and Ecuador can also give it if they are in a hurry, and even Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua will be handed over as a last resort! See how many Germans can occupy? All we need to do is keep Recife in South America, Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, and cover the Florida peninsula! ”

The only person who opposed this argument was probably Stilwell, the commander of the South American Theater of Operations of the Acid Joe, who spoke out to continue to send more forces to South America and wage an inch-by-inch battle with the German army, but what effect could his words have? It's not that it's quickly drowned in the saliva heap of the people of the United Staff.

In the end, only Marshall, who served as the "director of the Office of Advisers to the Army Affairs of Retired Generals," came out to speak for Dewey in a rare way: "I fully understand military strategy,

But you can't ignore political factors, you have to fully estimate the prestige and political image of the president, who has just been president for only a month, and is ready to lose so many allies and lands in a row, the impact is too bad, what do you make the American people think? What do you think of the allied population? If you plan to lose so much territory, why not just make peace with the Germans? ”

Admiral Kim choked him mercilessly: "In my opinion, there is nothing more humiliating than defeating the war, as long as the army says that it can win now, the navy guarantees to send enough troops to South America!" ”

Just when Dewey looked at MacArthur and Clark hopefully, the latter two were all dumbfounded, silent, just shook their heads in embarrassment, that demeanor showed that without enough naval and air force cover, the army could not win at all, which made Dewey's heart cold, but he couldn't say anything that would not fire all the senior generals, right?

By this time, Dewey finally tasted Truman, and he complained to those around him more than once: "I didn't expect Harry and President Roosevelt to work in such a bad environment, I think it's a miracle!" ”

However, he did not hesitate, he came into contact with some figures who did not belong to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were considered high-ranking military officials, and most of them held a similar attitude, believing that they could not easily waste the war at present. In particular, after the United States lost too many battles in the early stage out of political considerations, which should not have been lost or could not be lost, the situation has now completely turned upside down, without considering political factors at all, and only assessing whether it is militarily feasible.

Left assessment, right analysis, and finally came to a conclusion: If the United States still wants to win a decent war pattern, it should now use the popular argument of accumulating strength, restoring military strength, and enhancing combat strength as the basic point of being a turtle with a shrunken head.

The "Clark Formula" used to assess the strength of the German and American armies is still valid today, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently made a major upward revision of the values, because Bradley arrived in Recife with a few remnants of the Allied command in South Africa, and then flew to Washington without stopping, and after a few days of rest, he reported to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the course of the South African campaign.

"Cobra" was quite sincere, did not defend the course of the campaign too much, and did not hide his own problems in command, but one thing was very clear that he had a new understanding of the combat power of the German army.

According to him, the 300,000 Allied troops in South Africa had no parry strength in the face of the German Blitzkrieg 0 tactics, and the German army completely ate up 6 lines of defense, destroying Bradley's proudest deployment. The overall battle seems to have lasted 15 days, but in fact, by the morning of the third day, the night of the second day to be exact, the final outcome was completely doomed to be fought at all!

He believes that if the German army has the superiority of the navy and air force and has well-trained ground forces, according to the Blitzkrieg 0 posture, the US army will have to prepare at least four times more strength to deal with it. This ratio is not considered exaggerated, at the beginning Clarke's formula said that it would take more than 3 times the force to win the battle, and now according to the assessment of the South African campaign, it is 4 times to draw.

Dewey reluctantly "admitted" that four times was a reasonable figure, and then the Joint Chiefs of Staff began to estimate Germany's ability to guarantee seaborne supplies, and staff officers and logistics experts concluded that Germany could maintain 30.5 million troops on the Central American and Caribbean fronts, while still being supported by 10.15 million South American servants.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff will take the middle number of 400,000 and follow the formula of four times to be equal, which means that 1.6 million US troops will be sent. Although the United States has more than 6 million troops, it is almost impossible to send 1.6 million troops, not because it cannot provide so many supplies and supplies, but because it does not have such an adequate transportation system that is not attacked; Secondly, it is impossible for South America to deploy such a large number of troops, and more importantly, the US military really cannot draw 1.6 million well-trained troops.

Before 1940, the U.S. Army had only a little more than 100,000 troops, and after deducting a bunch of personnel occupied by organs, logistics, and schools, there were only 4 infantry divisions and 1 armored division, as well as a reserve armored division, and the whole army barely had more than 300 tanks, which was worse than the 100,000 Wehrmacht period, which was the worst in Germany. It is nothing more than that Germany is being suppressed by the great powers, and the United States is self-emasculating.

After several years of desperate replenishment, the US Army has finally expanded from more than 100,000 to more than 6 million (excluding the Army Aviation), which has expanded by more than 60 times.

At the beginning, the German Army unanimously ridiculed Goering's air force field division as a parallel army, believing that they could not defeat Stalin's militia division, and the strength of the second- and third-line troops of the United States was worse than that of the air force field division. Their weapons, ordnance, and equipment are actually first-class goods, similar to the situation when the air force field division held the latest weapons, but not with enough people and sufficient and sophisticated weapons to be called elite, the combat effectiveness of the US military really dare not make people compliment Britain originally sent four divisions to the North American continent in accordance with the regulations of the alliance (now all under the jurisdiction of the Churchill government), under the same situation of weapons and supplies, these four divisions can beat more than 90% of the US domestic troops, Because this batch of British divisions is basically a unit retained from the Dunkirk retreat, after repeated replenishment, it has maintained a good combat effectiveness.

At this time, the inference is obvious: the German army 5 years later hanged the German army 5 years ago, the German army 5 years ago beat the British division, and the British division beat the new American division, if it is the German army VS the new American division after 5 years, the picture is too beautiful to watch.

Zeitzler can also break up the Air Force field division and replenish it to the elite Wehrmacht units to fuse and raise the dough and add some water, knead the dough to become more vigorous, and the US army is full of parallel goods, and then remediate and add water to it, and finally get a big drop of water.

What is even more tragic is that, compared with history, the losses of the US military units are much greater, especially the front-line combat units, which have suffered a large number of devastating losses:

In Britain, the Americans lost more than 100,000 troops in a daze, and after the Anglo-German armistice, all of them entered British prisoner of war camps;

In North Africa, the torch project not only did not ignite, but lost nearly 100,000 in the chaotic Horn of Africa and Kenya battles;

In South America, a series of battles also lost nearly 100,000 troops, and also lost Patton;

In South Africa, Blitzkrieg 0 directly caused the loss of nearly 100,000 U.S. troops, and in the end only a few thousand people fled to Australia;

In addition, in the course of the Pacific Campaign, the Panama Campaign, the Cape Verde Campaign, the Bermuda Campaign, the Newfoundland Campaign, the Icelandic Campaign, and other battles, nearly 150,000 troops were lost in total, and tens of thousands of troops were added to the front line in Hawaii, but the US Army lost as much as 600,000 troops in the past three years.